Search for dissertations about: "voice"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 330 swedish dissertations containing the word voice.

2. 11. Voice Rehabilitation and Functional Outcomes Following Radiotherapy for Laryngeal Cancer

   Author : Lisa Tuomi; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; voice quality; voice training; laryngeal neoplasms; patient outcome assessment; quality of life; radiotherapy;

   Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis was to evaluate the effects of radiotherapy and voice rehabilitation on voice function and Health Related Quality of Life (HRQL) following treatment for laryngeal cancer. Patients treated for laryngeal cancer were prospectively studied pre-radiotherapy and 1, 6 and 12 months post-radiotherapy. READ MORE

4. 12. Aerodynamic measurements of normal voice

   Author : Eva Holmberg; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Normal voice; inverse filtering; glottal airflow waveform; subglottal air pressure; Phonetics; Fonetik; Phonetics; fonetik;

   Abstract : Vocal fold vibration results from an alternating balance between subglottal air pressure that drives the vocal folds apart and muscular, elastic, and restoring forces that draw them together. The aim of the present thesis is to present quantitative data of normal vocal function using a noninvasive method. READ MORE

5. 13. “Lasciatemi morire” o farò “La Finta Pazza”: Embodying Vocal Nothingness on Stage in Italian and French 17th Century Operatic Laments and Mad Scenes

   Author : Elisabeth Belgrano; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; voice; singing; nothingness; je-ne-sais-quoi; 17th century opera; pure voice; lamentation; madness; passions; emotions; nightingale; transformation; ornamentation; observation; improvisation; interpretation; vocal expression; embodiment; creative process; performance; repetition; movement; inner images; artistic research;

   Abstract : This music research drama thesis explores and presents a singer’s artistic research process from the first meeting with a musical score until the first steps of the performance on stage. The aim has been to define and formulate an understanding in sound as well as in words around the concept of pure voice in relation to the performance of 17th century vocal music from a 21st century singer’s practice-based perspective with reference to theories on nothingness, the role of the 17th century female singer, ornamentation (over-vocalization) and the singing of the nightingale. READ MORE

6. 14. Why so different? - Aspects of voice characteristics in operatic and musical theatre singing : Aspects of voice characteristics in operatic and musical theatre singing

   Author : Eva Björkner; Anders Askenfelt; Ronald C. Scherer; KTH; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; operatic singing; musical theatre singing; voice source; subglottal pressure; flow glottogram; inverse filtering; formant frequencies; amplitude quotient AQ ; Music; Musikvetenskap;

   Abstract : This thesis addresses aspects of voice characteristics in operatic and musical theatre singing. The common aim of the studies was to identify respiratory, phonatory and resonatory characteristics accounting for salient voice timbre differences between singing styles. READ MORE

7. 15. Vocal Figurations : Technique, Technology, and Mediation in the Gendering of Voice in Twenty-First-Century Pop Music

   Author : Veronika Muchitsch; Lars Berglund; Elizabeth Gould; Nina Eidsheim; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Pop Music; Pop Music Analysis; Music Criticism; Sound Studies; Auditory Cultures; Voice; Vocal Technique; Studio Technology; Electronic Media; Pop Music and Gender; Pop Music and Intersectionality; Feminist Figurations; Postfeminism; Popular Feminism; Lana Del Rey; Anohni; Antony and the Johnsons; Beyoncé; Musikvetenskap; Musicology;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the gendering of voice in twenty-first-century pop music and music criticism through the concept of vocal figurations. Embodying a thoroughly relational understanding of voice, it articulates vocal technique, studio technology, and electronic mediation as three primary dimensions through which voices come to signal gender as it intersects with other vectors of social identity. READ MORE